Thursday, September 18, 2014

Surprising Dip in Stratospheric Radiation during Solar Storm

RADIATION DIPS DURING SOLAR STORM: On Sept. 12th, student scientists in
Califonornia launched a weather balloon to the stratosphere during the
most intense solar storm of the year. They expected to measure an
increase in energetic radiation. Instead they measured a sharp drop.

Their counterintuitive data and the interesting explanation for it are
featured on today's edition of http://spaceweather.com